[X4U] How to view news videos

[Michael Winter]

On Aug 31, 2005, at 5:33 AM, T.L. Miller wrote:

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> It tells me that no WMP was detected and a button to Get The Player.

Do you have WMP running before you hit the link? Sometimes having the  
player actually running seems to help browsers "find" it. I just  
tried it and it shows the video player window, but gets stuck at  
"Connecting to media...". Tried emptying the cache as indicated in  
the help section, which looked like it might work (proceeded through  
the buffering stage) but then froze on the "Connecting to media..."  
again.

Just wish sites like this would make it possible (is it?) to simply  
direct the video link to the actual player (wether QT, WMP or Real)  
instead of insisting on putting it in a browser window with a lot of  
other junk. That seems to be what usually causes the trouble.

Safari 2.0, OS X 10.4.2, WMP 9.0

Wow, just getting ready to send this and started hearing some sound.  
The video actually started playing!! This is after a couple minutes  
of "Connecting to media..." using a broadband connection.

-Mike